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Volume CHI, Number 65 University of Southern California Thursday, April 23, 1987
Conservative columnist Novak handicaps presidential election
By Stephanie Powers
Staff Writer
MICHAEL KIM DAILY TROJAN
Political columnist Robert Novak addressed the upcoming 1988 presidential election in a speech at Waite Phillips Hall Tuesday night.
A standing-room-only crowd gathered Wednesday evening in Waite Phillips Hall to hear a presentation on a variety of national political topics, including the candidates and issues involved in the upcoming
presidential election. The presentation, which took place in the "Mass Media and Politics" class, featured Robert Novak, a nationally syndicated political columnist and copublisher of a bi-monthly national newsletter, the Evans-Novak Political Report. Novak spoke to students, university faculty and media representatives.
William Brown, Jr., California Assembly Speaker, was also scheduled to speak, but was unable to because of an extended session of the California legislature.
Novak said that too often the media is not interested in reporting on campaign issues, instead wants to be the manager
"That is too bad because today there are differences between the parties, issues that will affect the public and how this country will be run," Novak said.
He said that in the past it was "hard to tell a difference" between the candidate's position on issues. "That has changed. The parties are polarized," Novak said.
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Helpful tips to protect students from harassment
Security taking extra measures in response to increased crime
By Karen Kuettel
Staff Writer
As many have noticed, there has been a startling increase in the number of student robberies over the past month, many involving guns and knives. However, Lt. Mike Kennedy, watch commander for University Security, doesn't believe that the recent trend of student robberies is "anything unusual."
"I don't think it's something like the weather," Kennedy said, denouncing external influences as a reason for the rash of crimes.
However, Kennedy acknowledged that he and security have taken notice to the influx of robbery reports and said that they have taken extra precautions and provided more patrol to the university community.
The most recent of the campus incidents, as reported in Security Roundup yesterday, involved a female student who was in a Taper Hall restroom when a man broke into the stall she was in, held a knife to her throat and demanded her bookbag.
Kennedy admitted that "that was rather unusual," and was probably "somebody only interested in getting any kind of money or valuable that he could."
On April 8, two students walking back from Burger King at 12:40 a.m. were approached by two men who drove up in a dark car and pointed a semi-automatic pistol at them. The driver demanded their wallets, and the two students were forced to give up a total of $315. Less than 30 minutes later, two other students walking near the comer of Orchard and 30th streets were held up by a man driving a dark car, and they lost a total of $45.
Kennedy said that "some (robberies) that occur have similarities, and it could be the same one (person), or just a coincidence." But Kennedy said that because the two incidents were so similar and
occurred within 30 minutes of each other, the suspect in each situation"was probably the same guy" who conducted both robberies.
To protect students from robberies and harassment, Kennedy gave three points of advice:
• "If you're going to be out late at night, don't go places by yourself."
• "If you encounter somebody on the stree-t. . .and he looks a little apprehensive, try to get
(Continued on page 2)
BRUCE LE / DAILY TROJAN
Bill Langenheim, editor of Junkyard Dog, the university’s literary magazine, asks the senate to vote for a $933.23 allocation for his magazine during last night’s meeting.
Senate to allocate funds for student publication
By Anh Do
Staff Writer
In its shortest meeting of the year, the Student Senate last night voted to allocate $933.23 from its Services Discretionary Board for the publication of the second issue of Junkyard Dog, a campus-wide, interdisciplinary publication open to all undergraduate and graduate students.
The magazine, which had its debut in February, was originally promised enough funding for two issues in a proposal submitted last November, said Bill Langenheim, editor.
In the proposal, the cost per issue was bottom-lined at $1,862. Thus, the Discretionary Board allocated $3,724.
However, "due to the overwhelming response to the second (issue), submission drive and complaints by students that 28 pages is insufficient, we felt we needed to show our commitment by increasing the number of pages" to 44, Langenheim said.
We need $933.23 to pay for the page increase, he said.
In a resolution written by Langenheim and sponsored by Philip Clement, vice president, the senate was called to approve the allocation because "there is an urgent need for the development of alternative academic organizations and affairs on the campus for the purpose of stimulating extracurricular academic growth."
Additionally, "the rapid growth and greatly-increased student participation in the magazine requires a response on the part of the Student Senate in the form of commitment to the original agreement," the resolution read.
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Fulbright scholarship applications for graduates available on May 1
Coveted awards presented to 690 students nationwide
By Laurie Betlach
Staff Writer
Applications for Fulbright scholarship awards will be available in the graduate student office beginning May 1, said Rosanne Dutton, assistant dean of the Graduate School.
Fulbright scholarships are federal grants awarded to graduate students for study abroad.
Approximately 690 awards for the 1988-89 academic year will be granted to graduate students from universities all over the country. The application deadline is Sept. 28, 1987, and applicants will be informed some time next year.
Graduate students, who receive
grants for either academic research or professional training in the creative and performing arts, can choose from over 70 countries to visit.
Applicants must hold bachelor's degrees or the equivalent before the beginning date of the grant, and in most cases, must be proficient in the language of the country to which they are applying
The purpose of the grants, which are funded by Congress, is to increase mutual understanding between the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills, said a pamphlet from the Institute of International Education, an organization that aids
in the selection process once the applications are received.
The Fulbright awards are named for Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, who sponsored legislation for an international scholarship program during the 1940s.
"The Fulbright selection process has a number of steps," Dutton said.
First the applicants must complete a form which should include a research proposal, a self-description, three recommendations and a form signed by a professor from a foreign language department attesting that the students are fluent in the language of the coun-
(Continued on page 2)

dMB^irojan
Volume CHI, Number 65 University of Southern California Thursday, April 23, 1987
Conservative columnist Novak handicaps presidential election
By Stephanie Powers
Staff Writer
MICHAEL KIM DAILY TROJAN
Political columnist Robert Novak addressed the upcoming 1988 presidential election in a speech at Waite Phillips Hall Tuesday night.
A standing-room-only crowd gathered Wednesday evening in Waite Phillips Hall to hear a presentation on a variety of national political topics, including the candidates and issues involved in the upcoming
presidential election. The presentation, which took place in the "Mass Media and Politics" class, featured Robert Novak, a nationally syndicated political columnist and copublisher of a bi-monthly national newsletter, the Evans-Novak Political Report. Novak spoke to students, university faculty and media representatives.
William Brown, Jr., California Assembly Speaker, was also scheduled to speak, but was unable to because of an extended session of the California legislature.
Novak said that too often the media is not interested in reporting on campaign issues, instead wants to be the manager
"That is too bad because today there are differences between the parties, issues that will affect the public and how this country will be run," Novak said.
He said that in the past it was "hard to tell a difference" between the candidate's position on issues. "That has changed. The parties are polarized," Novak said.
(Continued on page 21)
Helpful tips to protect students from harassment
Security taking extra measures in response to increased crime
By Karen Kuettel
Staff Writer
As many have noticed, there has been a startling increase in the number of student robberies over the past month, many involving guns and knives. However, Lt. Mike Kennedy, watch commander for University Security, doesn't believe that the recent trend of student robberies is "anything unusual."
"I don't think it's something like the weather," Kennedy said, denouncing external influences as a reason for the rash of crimes.
However, Kennedy acknowledged that he and security have taken notice to the influx of robbery reports and said that they have taken extra precautions and provided more patrol to the university community.
The most recent of the campus incidents, as reported in Security Roundup yesterday, involved a female student who was in a Taper Hall restroom when a man broke into the stall she was in, held a knife to her throat and demanded her bookbag.
Kennedy admitted that "that was rather unusual," and was probably "somebody only interested in getting any kind of money or valuable that he could."
On April 8, two students walking back from Burger King at 12:40 a.m. were approached by two men who drove up in a dark car and pointed a semi-automatic pistol at them. The driver demanded their wallets, and the two students were forced to give up a total of $315. Less than 30 minutes later, two other students walking near the comer of Orchard and 30th streets were held up by a man driving a dark car, and they lost a total of $45.
Kennedy said that "some (robberies) that occur have similarities, and it could be the same one (person), or just a coincidence." But Kennedy said that because the two incidents were so similar and
occurred within 30 minutes of each other, the suspect in each situation"was probably the same guy" who conducted both robberies.
To protect students from robberies and harassment, Kennedy gave three points of advice:
• "If you're going to be out late at night, don't go places by yourself."
• "If you encounter somebody on the stree-t. . .and he looks a little apprehensive, try to get
(Continued on page 2)
BRUCE LE / DAILY TROJAN
Bill Langenheim, editor of Junkyard Dog, the university’s literary magazine, asks the senate to vote for a $933.23 allocation for his magazine during last night’s meeting.
Senate to allocate funds for student publication
By Anh Do
Staff Writer
In its shortest meeting of the year, the Student Senate last night voted to allocate $933.23 from its Services Discretionary Board for the publication of the second issue of Junkyard Dog, a campus-wide, interdisciplinary publication open to all undergraduate and graduate students.
The magazine, which had its debut in February, was originally promised enough funding for two issues in a proposal submitted last November, said Bill Langenheim, editor.
In the proposal, the cost per issue was bottom-lined at $1,862. Thus, the Discretionary Board allocated $3,724.
However, "due to the overwhelming response to the second (issue), submission drive and complaints by students that 28 pages is insufficient, we felt we needed to show our commitment by increasing the number of pages" to 44, Langenheim said.
We need $933.23 to pay for the page increase, he said.
In a resolution written by Langenheim and sponsored by Philip Clement, vice president, the senate was called to approve the allocation because "there is an urgent need for the development of alternative academic organizations and affairs on the campus for the purpose of stimulating extracurricular academic growth."
Additionally, "the rapid growth and greatly-increased student participation in the magazine requires a response on the part of the Student Senate in the form of commitment to the original agreement," the resolution read.
(Continued on page 3)
Fulbright scholarship applications for graduates available on May 1
Coveted awards presented to 690 students nationwide
By Laurie Betlach
Staff Writer
Applications for Fulbright scholarship awards will be available in the graduate student office beginning May 1, said Rosanne Dutton, assistant dean of the Graduate School.
Fulbright scholarships are federal grants awarded to graduate students for study abroad.
Approximately 690 awards for the 1988-89 academic year will be granted to graduate students from universities all over the country. The application deadline is Sept. 28, 1987, and applicants will be informed some time next year.
Graduate students, who receive
grants for either academic research or professional training in the creative and performing arts, can choose from over 70 countries to visit.
Applicants must hold bachelor's degrees or the equivalent before the beginning date of the grant, and in most cases, must be proficient in the language of the country to which they are applying
The purpose of the grants, which are funded by Congress, is to increase mutual understanding between the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills, said a pamphlet from the Institute of International Education, an organization that aids
in the selection process once the applications are received.
The Fulbright awards are named for Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, who sponsored legislation for an international scholarship program during the 1940s.
"The Fulbright selection process has a number of steps," Dutton said.
First the applicants must complete a form which should include a research proposal, a self-description, three recommendations and a form signed by a professor from a foreign language department attesting that the students are fluent in the language of the coun-
(Continued on page 2)